John Galt In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged

In 1928 Herbert Hoover is elected president burning the dust off onto Al Smith by simply walking away with electoral votes, winning 444-40. Hoover designed his campaign to focus on rebuilding America. As Lisa Mcgirr explains it in her book “The War on Alcohol”, “The nation was awash in illegal

In the letter he was called a fraud, discredited, harassed, and threatened. His speech, I’ve Been to the Top of the Mountaintop, was his final public address on April 3, 1968.

After assassinating the sixteenth president of the United States, Booth left behind a legacy of being a villain and a murderer. One action erased the rest of his life of being an actor. He will forever be remembered as the man who murdered Abraham Lincoln. As covered in my paper, this tragic event has left a long lasting impact on America with the creation of the secret service and Andrew Johnson becoming president and creating mass chaos in the government. If Booth could’ve see the legacy he left behind, he may have felt regret but as he said in his famous diary entries, “Right or Wrong, God Judge

In Kurt Vonnegut’s 1973 novel Breakfast of Champions, protagonists Dwayne Hoover and Kilgore Trout are destined to cross paths, and event that leads to the climax of the story, Dwayne’s inevitable mental breakdown. Hoover, a rich businessman in fictional Midland City, has been becoming increasingly mentally unstable since the suicide of his wife. Trout, a nearly unknown author, is invited to Midland City to deliver an address. Midland City becomes the setting upon which their stories diverge. Hoover is driven to madness after reading one of Trout’s stories, which asserts that the reader is the only living being with free will, and all others are robots.

Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel written by Ray Bradbury, published in 1953. The story depicts a futuristic American world, where all books and literature are banned. The job of the “Firemen” is to burn all found. The novel was inspired by similar times in history when books were regulated. In the novel, it is apparent that the management of political power affects the actions, the minds, and the feelings of groups and of individuals in society.

Objectivism and Atlas Shrugged: We Could Learn a Thing or Two Imploding Argentinian copper mines owned by your father and his father before him; torching oil wells that took decades to bore into the countryside; eradicating your entire life’s work to keep it from those who would purloin it for their own nefarious purposes. This is the price to enter the promised land in Ayn Rand’s magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged, wherein the government’s strict regulations and the inexplicable disappearance of all preeminent entrepreneurs impeding railroad president Dagny Taggart endeavoring to upheave the country out of a calamitous recession. The novel serves as a fictionalization of Objectivism, a philosophical system originated by Rand herself, which characterizes

“They had been honed and trained so thoroughly by that extinguished world that they were doomed in this new one” (Zone One 31). Colson Whitehead 's novel, Zone One, draws attention to the issue of consumer capitalism through a post-apocalyptic plot line. Likewise, Leif Sorensen draws on a similar point by discussing how Zone One feeds into his claim that “the novel’s commitment to closure is driven in part by a sense that repetitive cycles of late-capitalist futurism offer change in name only” (561). In other words, an aspect of consumer society includes a presentation of a new idea, product, or concept that is actually a previous idea rebranded. My essay builds and extends this claim by focusing on an overlooked aspect of the novel, the stragglers

Many years ago, there was a dark time called the Holocaust. It was the time when Adolf Hitler was elected as the president of Germany and he started convincing the Germans that the Jews were the ones that were the problem for everything, and if they got rid of them then life would be better for Germany. Hitler started a group he called Nazis. They were soldiers of his that did as he said, such as the many terrible things to Jews, handicapped, aged, sick, and many many more. After the war Nazis were evil people who were mostly taken to trial to be killed, jailed, or released unless they got away to another unknown country (www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NAZIS:CHAP1.HTM).

The fathers of the ideology initially called for revolutionary change. Edward Bernstein highlights this tension in his preface to Evolutionary Socialism. He says, “No one has questioned the necessity for the working class to gain control of the government. The point at issue is between the theory of social cataclysm and the question whether with the given social development in Germany, and the present advanced state of its working classes in the towns in the country, a sudden catastrophe would be desirable in the interest of social democracy (Bernstein 141).” Bernstein makes the argument that a Marx and Engels overestimated the amount of time systemic change would take in their Communist Manifesto.

Hitler hated his father and this formed into German nationalism due to his father being an Austrian official. Hitler joined the German military during the first world war and beginning a role into the German political system. He lead an unsuccessful coup of on the german government and was placed in prison for year were he wrote “Mein Kampf”. After his imprisonment he created the Nazi party and during the worst years of the depression he was chancellor due to

She froze. … And his response was to brutally kill her,” Howe said. “The defendant 's actions are clearly the type of case the death penalty was made for.” Miller also kills 69-year-old William Corporon, and Corporon 's 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park. The author reveals, among Miller 's witnesses was his 39-year-old son, Frazier Glenn Miller III, who testified he doesn 't know where his father learned about “hating Jews and about hating other

The most significant political conflict President Jackson faced while in office was his controversial use of executive power to fight and ultimately destroy the second Band of the United States. It started with Jackson vetoing a bill calling for an early renewal of the Second Bank’s charter. In 1933 Jackson started his attack on the Bank by removing all federal deposits from the bank. After Jackson had Roger B. Taney, secretary of the treasury, cease all government money from the bank and had the funds place in twenty-three state banks. To try and dispute what Jackson was doing, the president of the Bank called in outstanding loans and instituting a policy of credit contraction that helped bring on a recession in hopes to show that without the Bank the economy would greatly suffer.

The progressives were a group of people who wanted to change the situation for the better. The progressives had a big role in reforming the the US socially, politically, and industrially.

The Candor of An Authoritarian Government Controlled Utopia Government control affects lives daily, some more than others. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut are both satirical writings that take place in the future all over the world. In both writings, the government have completely disenfranchised citizens in attempt to create an utopia. Aldous Huxley’s satirical novel Brave New World and Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical short story “Harrison Bergeron” both depict the disenfranchisement and ultimate disabling of citizens by the government in effort to create an “Utopia”. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and “Gaza Rebuilding Awaits Palestinian Government Control” an article by Daily Sabah, foreshadowing is used to predict the possible effects on citizens and outcomes of certain acts of governmental control.

“The Great Depression was a time of devastation and uncertainty. After the stock market crashed in October 1929, millions of Americans lost their jobs and homes” this article and quote helped Harper Lee to write the famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird (McCabe 12). The central idea of this paper will focus on historical influences in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird for example, The Great Depression because it was taken place in this time period. All the historical influences covered in this paper will be the Jim Crow laws, mob mentality, and lastly the Scottsboro trials. One of the influences in Harper Lee’s book To Kill a Mockingbird is The Jim Crow laws.